The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Briar vs. Qiyana matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Briar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Qiyana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Briar may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Qiyana..
Briar usually has a similar longest kill spree as their enemy does. Typically, they receives more damage than Qiyana. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Briar usually wins when trying to fight Qiyana, with a 54.8% win rate. As a result, Briar makes a great counter for Qiyana.
While Briar does have a much higher win rate than Qiyana, when on opposite teams, Briar also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Briar into Qiyana.
Moreover, Briar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Qiyana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Briar vs Qiyana matchups, Briar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Briar is a great counter for Qiyana. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Briar against Qiyana.
If you would like to truly master Briar to counter Qiyana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Briar usually gets a lot less CS relative to Qiyana. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Briar versus Qiyana build include Guardian Angel, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Briar incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better countering Qiyana than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Briar boasted an average win rate of 54.8% battling Qiyana with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Qiyana as Briar, Briar players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Briar vs Qiyana counters, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.8% winrate overall.
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